To all of our guests, sponsors, vendors, and beverage partners, thank you! And a very special shout out to our first beverage sponsor to sign up this year:

Fieldhouse Brewing Co.

Feast of Saint Arnold

Save the date:

Saturday, June 9, 2018 General admission noon to 4:30 PM at Chapel of Our Saviour Episcopal Church

8 Fourth Street in the beautiful Broadmoor area of Colorado Springs

INDY readers selected the Feast of Saint Arnold as being among the best Brewery/Beer Events in Colorado Springs!The INDY’s Best of the Springs The Independent’s 24th annual Best Of issue ranks FOSA 2nd, behind only the Bristol Firkin Rendezvous.

Click on this image, above, if you want to learn how a wonderful event like this gets organized and produced. Here is your opportunity to work with a truly great team for a wonderful cause, and to build your skills in the process.

This family-friendly celebration features tastings of craft specialties: brews, wines, and spirits. The emphasis is on beer, but man does not live by beer alone! Held on the sprawling, historic grounds of the Chapel of Our Saviour, it is a unique experience enriched with a variety of food and merchandise vendors offering a range of Colorado products. Live music, family activities that include a designated Kids Zone full of fun activities, tours of the century old estate (if only the walls could talk), and appearances of good olde Saint Arnold complement the day’s activities.

Don’t miss the opportunity to volunteer for the Grounds Reformation Party. Your volunteer ticket gets you into the event. You can enjoy the afternoon and pitch in to help clean up the grounds, secure the equipment, then relax with your crew at dinner.

Do you get your ‘money’s worth’ at beer fests? While a couple of the beer fests held annually in the Springs area are for-profit ventures, most are fundraisers. For instance, the Feast of St. Arnold, in June, is staffed by volunteers and benefits Westside CARES and the missions of Chapel of Our Saviour. Other nonprofit beer fests benefiting local charities include August’s Springs Beer Fest, the Manitou Springs Heritage Brew Festival, and the All Colorado Beer Festival. “For the beer drinker, a festival is an opportunity to taste a wide range of beers from many different breweries all in one place,” said Randy Dipner, assistant director of the All Colorado Beer Festival, where general admission tickets (available now online) go for $40. “There’s no way to drink the amount of beer the thing costs, so there’s got to be more to it. Second, most festivals donate a considerable share of the ticket cost to charity.” So I guess the upshot is this: There’s more to most brew fests than meets the eye, the belly, and the wallet. Adapted from Stephanie Earls’ article in The Gazette’s October 6, 2016 Go feature, Drinks section. pikespub@gazette.com/636-0364

Selected by readers of the popular blog, Focus on the Beer in the top three “Best Local Beer Festivals”

Let us know if you would like to volunteer

Here is most of the FOSA V organizing committee. See how many of us you can tag at the event. Click image to view photo by Tom Knopps.